# Deaths in October 1999
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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 1999.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## October 1999
### 1

* Ted Arison, 75, Israeli businessman, heart attack.
* Pietro Maria Bardi, 99, Italian writer, curator and collector.
* Kuei Chih-hung, 61, Hong Kong filmmaker, liver cancer.
* Glen Foster, 69, American sailor and Olympic medalist, esophageal cancer.
* Norbert Felix Gaughan, 78, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Noel Johnson, 82, English actor.
* Gunnar Ljungström, 94, Swedish aerodynamics and automobile engineer.
* Wim Polak, 75, Dutch politician, mayor of Amsterdam (1977–1983), cancer.
* Lena Zavaroni, 35, Scottish singer and a television show host, pneumonia.

### 2

* Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Albanian Islamic scholar.
* Kim Hyun-jun, 39, South Korean basketball player, traffic collision.
* Tosio Katō, 82, Japanese mathematician.
* Heinz G. Konsalik, 78, German novelist.
* R. S. Krishnan, 88, Indian experimental physicist and scientist.
* Lee Lozano, 68, American painter and visual artist.
* Danny Mayo, 49, American songwriter, heart attack.
* Lee Richardson, 73, American actor (Prizzi's Honor, Brubaker, Network).
* Wayne Sevier, 58, American gridiron football coach, heart attack.
* Georg Tintner, 82, Austrian conductor, suicide by jumping.

### 3

* Paul Burris, 76, American baseball player.
* Alastair Hetherington, 79, British journalist and editor of The Guardian.
* N. Mohanan, 66, Indian Malayalam -language short story writer and novelist.
* Akio Morita, 78, Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony, pneumonia.

### 4

* Bernard Buffet, 71, French painter, suicide by asphyxiation.
* Art Farmer, 71, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.
* De Villiers Graaff, 85, South African politician.
* Nikkyō Niwano, 92, Japanese Buddhist leader.
* Emil Schumacher, 87, German painter.
* Rod Shoate, 46, American gridiron football player.
* Leonard Shoen, 83, American entrepreneur, suicide by traffic collision.
* Robert G. L. Waite, 80, Canadian historian, psychohistorian, and academic.

### 5

* Fernand Dubé, 70, Canadian lawyer and politician, heart attack.
* Earl Evans, 89, American biochemist.
* Alex Lowe, 40, American mountaineer, avalanche.
* Frank K. Richardson, 85, American attorney and judge, Parkinson's disease.
* Jack Somerville, 89, New Zealand presbyterian leader.

### 6

* Larry Floyd, 91, Australian politician.
* Randi Kolstad, 74, Norwegian theater and screen actress.
* Gorilla Monsoon, 62, American wrestler and commentator, complications of diabetes.
* Patrick Reilly, 90, British diplomat and ambassador.
* Amália Rodrigues, 79, Portuguese singer known as the "Queen of Fado", heart attack.
* Tatevik Sazandaryan, 83, Soviet and Armenian operatic mezzo-soprano.
* Maris Wrixon, 82, American film and television actress, heart failure.

### 7

* Deryck Guyler, 85, English actor.
* David A. Huffman, 74, American computer scientist, cancer.
* Bruce Ritter, 72, American catholic priest and Franciscan friar, cancer.
* Genrikh Sapgir, 70, Russian poet and fiction writer, heart attack.
* Lucien Thèze, 86, French basketball player.
* Dimitri Tsafendas, 81, Greek-Mozambican political militant, pneumonia.
* Helen Vinson, 92, American film actress.
* Dave Whitsell, 63, American football player, cancer.

### 8

* Manfredo Fest, 63, Brazilian bossa nova and jazz pianist and keyboardist.
* Henri Koch-Kent, 94, Luxembourgish publicist, author, and historian.
* Zezé Macedo, 83, Brazilian comedienne and actress.
* John McLendon, 84, American basketball coach.
* Reinis Zusters, 81, Latvian-Australian artist.

### 9

* Dutch Dotterer, 67, American baseball player.
* Milt Jackson, 76, American jazz vibraphonist, liver cancer.
* Akhtar Hameed Khan, 85, Pakistani social scientist, heart attack.
* James M. Logan, 78, American soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
* João Cabral de Melo Neto, 79, Brazilian poet and diplomat.
* Rolf Stein, 88, German-French sinologist and tibetologist.
* Rocío Wanninkhof, 19, Dutch-Spanish murder victim, exsanguination.
* Morris West, 83, Australian novelist and playwright.
* Franz Wolf, 92, German nazi SS-Oberscharführer and Holocaust perpetrator during World War II.

### 10

* Patrick Campbell, 22, Northern Irish republican and volunteer, stabbed.
* George Forrest, 84, American writer of music and lyrics for musicals.
* Alfredo Gil, 84, Mexican singer (Trio Los Panchos).
* Gul Hassan Khan, Pakistani Army general.
* Hajime Nakamura, 86, Japanese indologist, philosopher and academic.
* Ted White, 86, Australian cricketer.

### 11

* Adriano Bassetto, 74, Italian football player.
* Fakir Baykurt, 70, Turkish author and trade unionist.
* Galina Bystrova, 65, Soviet athlete.
* John Foot, Baron Foot, 90, British politician and Life Peer.
* Leo Lionni, 89, Italian-American author and illustrator of children's books, Parkinson's disease.
* Colette Picard, 85, French archaeologist and historian.
* Oscar Valicelli, 84, Argentine film actor.

### 12

* Carlos Barreto, 23, Venezuelan bantamweight boxer and Olympian, brian trauma sustained during match.
* Wilt Chamberlain, 63, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers, Philadelphia 76ers) and actor (Conan the Destroyer), heart failure.
* Frank Frost, 63, American blues harmonica player, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
* Ayako Miura, 77, Japanese novelist, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
* Clément Perron, 70, Canadian film director and screenwriter.

### 13

* Geoffrey Burke, 86, English Roman Catholic bishop.
* Ingrid Englund, 73, Swedish alpine skier and Olympian.
* Michael Hartnett, 58, Irish poet, alcoholic liver disease.
* James E. Williams, 68, American Cherokee indian and Medal of Honor recipient.
* Qasem-Ali Zahirnejad, Iranian Army general, stroke.

### 14

* Franca Dominici, 92, Italian actress and voice actress.
* Diethard Hellmann, 70, German Kantor and an academic.
* Julius Nyerere, 77, Tanzanian anti-colonial activist and politician, leukemia.
* Richard B. Shull, 70, American actor, heart attack.
* Jerry Walter McFadden, 51, American serial killer and sex offender, execution by lethal injection.

### 15

* Yosef Burg, 90, German-born Israeli politician.
* Durgawati Devi, 92, Indian revolutionary and a freedom fighter.
* Terry Gilkyson, 83, American folk singer, composer, and lyricist.
* Eddie Jones, 64, British science fiction illustrator.
* Torsten Lilliecrona, 78, Swedish actor.
* Josef Locke, 82, Irish tenor.
* Steve Ramsey, 51, American gridiron football player, traffic collision.

### 16

* Bobbie Beard, 69, American child actor.
* Bruce Cameron, 43, American guitarist, suicide.
* Bill Dodgin, 90, English football player, manager and coach.
* Ella Mae Morse, 75, American popular singer, respiratory failure.
* Jean Shepherd, 78, American raconteur, radio and TV personality, writer and actor.

### 17

* Hugh Bolton, 70, Canadian ice hockey player.
* William Gould Dow, 104, American scientist, educator and inventor.
* Tommy Durden, 79, American guitarist and songwriter.
* Richard John Harrison, 79, British academic.
* Rick Lapointe, 44, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.
* Nicholas Metropolis, 84, Greek-American physicist.
* Ralph Grey, Baron Grey of Naunton, 89, New Zealand peer and last Governor of Northern Ireland.
* Charles Wanstall, 87, Australian politician.
* Franz Peter Wirth, 80, German film director and screenwriter.

### 18

* Dallas Bower, 92, British director and producer.
* Mahanambrata Brahmachari, 94, Hindu monk.
* John Cannon, 66, sports car racer, aircraft crash.
* Tony Crombie, 74, English jazz drummer, pianist, bandleader and composer.
* Paddi Edwards, 68, British-American actress, respiratory failure.
* Ross Parmenter, 87, Canadian music critic, editor, and author.

### 19

* Auður Auðuns, 88, Icelandic lawyer and politician.
* Harry Bannink, 70, Dutch composer, arranger and pianist.
* Robert Black, 93, British colonial administrator, Governor of Singapore (1955–1957).
* Hayes Gordon, 79, American actor, stage director and acting teacher, heart disease.
* Ray Katt, 72, American baseball player and coach, lymphoma.
* Zeng Liansong, 81, Chinese economist and designer of the nation's flag.
* Penelope Mortimer, 81, English journalist, biographer and novelist, cancer.
* James C. Murray, 82, American politician.
* Nathalie Sarraute, 99, French writer and lawyer.
* E. J. Scovell, 92, English poet and translator.

### 20

* Hans Georg Amsel, 94, German entomologist.
* Loukas Barlos, 79, Greek businessman, lung cancer.
* Agim Çavdarbasha, 55, Kosovo-Albanian sculptor.
* Calvin Griffith, 87, American Major League Baseball team owner.
* Mae Street Kidd, 95, American businesswoman, civic leader and politician.
* Jack Lynch, 82, Irish Fianna Fáil politician and fourth Taoiseach (1966–1973, 1977–1979), cerebrovascular disease.
* Willi Schröder, 70, German football player.
* Abdullah Sungkar, 62, Indonesian islamist and founder of terror group Jemaah Islamiyah.

### 21

* Queenie Ashton, 95, Australian actress.
* Lars Bo, 75, Danish artist and writer.
* John Bromwich, 80, Australian tennis player.
* Esther Fernández, 84, Mexican film and television actress, lung infarction.
* H. Stuart Hughes, 83, American historian, professor, and activist.
* LaMont Johnson, 58, American jazz pianist, heart failure.
* Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, 60, Turkish politician, intellectual, lawyer, columnist, and academic.
* Horst Krüger, 80, German novelist.
* Fran O'Brien, 63, American football player, heart attack.
* Heinz Renneberg, 72, West German rower and Olympic champion.
* Gennady Vasilyev, 59, Russian film director, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Eric Wauters, 48, Belgian equestrian and Olympic medalist.

### 22

* Alphonse Anger, 84, French gymnast.
* Martin Donnelly, 82, New Zealand cricketer and England rugby player.
* Ed Mikan, 74, American basketball player.
* István Nagy, 60, Hungarian football player.
* Gordon Smith, 91, American ice hockey player.
* Irv Spencer, 61, Canadian ice hockey player.

### 23

* Jean Dauger, 79, French rugby player.
* András Hegedüs, 76, Hungarian communist politician.
* Neriman Köksal, 71, Turkish actress, breast cancer.
* Trudi Meyer, 85, German gymnast.
* Eric Reece, 90, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (1958–1969).
* Luciano Soprani, Italian fashion designer, throat cancer.
* Cyril James Stubblefield, 98, British geologist.
* Albert Tucker, 84, Australian artist.
* Francis Whitaker, 93, American artist and blacksmith.
* Bobby Willis, 57, British songwriter, lung and liver cancer.

### 24

* John Chafee, 77, American politician and senator, congestive heart failure.
* Lucien De Muynck, 68, Belgian middle-distance runner and Olympian.
* Georges Gandil, 73, French sprint canoeist.
* Ginette Harrison, 41, British climber, climbing accident.
* Berthe Qvistgaard, 89, Danish stage and film actress.
* Philip Sansom, 83, British anarchist writer and activist.
* Marc Simenon, 60, French director and screenwriter, fall.

### 25

* Leonard Boyle, 75, Irish and Canadian scholar in medieval studies and palaeography.
* Vittorio Erspamer, 90, Italian pharmacologist and chemist.
* Rosalie Gascoigne, 82, New Zealand-Australian sculptor.
* Arturo Herbruger, 87, Guatemalan politician.
* Samson Kisekka, 87, Ugandan politician, heart attack.
* Johannes Käbin, 94, Soviet and Estonian politician.
* Victor Saúde Maria, 60, Bissau-Guinean politician, assassination.
* S. Rajeswara Rao, 77, Indian composer and musician.
* Payne Stewart, 42, American golfer, plane crash.
* David Spence Thomson, 83, New Zealand politician.

### 26

* Maria Alba, 89, Spanish-American film actress.
* Hoyt Axton, 61, American folk music singer-songwriter and actor, heart attack.
* Eknath Easwaran, 88, Indian-American spiritual teacher and author.
* Rex Gildo, 63, German singer of schlager ballads, suicide by jumping.
* Christiane Jaccottet, 62, Swiss harpsichordist and musicologist.
* Abraham Polonsky, 88, American film director, screenwriter, essayist and novelist.
* Albert Whitlock, 84, British motion picture matte artist, Parkinson's disease.

### 27

* Wes Berggren, 28, American musician and guitarist for rock band Tripping Daisy, drug overdose.
* Johnny Byrne, 60, English footballer, heart attack.
* Lois Collier, 80, American film actress, Alzheimer's disease.
* Frank De Vol, 88, American arranger, composer and actor, heart failure.
* Xie Fei, 66, Chinese politician, Politburo member, leukemia.
* Robert Mills, 72, American physicist.
* José Aarón Alvarado Nieves, 33, Mexican professional wrestler, infection.
* Éamonn O'Doherty, 60, Northern Irish political activist.
* Charlotte Perriand, 96, French architect and designer.
* Glen Vernon, 76, American actor.
* Austin B. Williams, 80, American carcinologist, cancer.
* Notable victims killed in the Armenian parliament shooting in Yerevan, Armenia:
** Vazgen Sargsyan, 40, Prime Minister
** Karen Demirchyan, 67, National Assembly Speaker
** Yuri Bakhshyan, 52, Deputy National Assembly Speaker
** Ruben Miroyan, 60, Deputy National Assembly Speaker
** Leonard Petrosyan, 46, Minister of Urgent Affairs
** Henrik Abrahamyan, 60, Member of Parliament
** Mikayel Kotanyan, 72, Member of Parliament

### 28

* Howard Browne, 91, American science fiction editor and mystery writer.
* Ralph Crosthwaite, 63, American basketball player.
* Antonis Katinaris, 68, Greek musician.
* Rafael Alberti Merello, 96, Spanish poet.
* Gastone Pescucci, 73, Italian actor and voice actor.

### 29

* Kamal Adham, 69-70, Saudi businessman, heart attack.
* Brita Appelgren, 86, Swedish film actress.
* Tom Dickinson, 102, American football player.
* Rosa Furman, 69, Mexican actress, cardiac arrest.
* Greg, 68, Belgian cartoonist, aneurysm.
* Cavan Kendall, 57, British actor, cancer.
* Colin Matthew, 58, British historian and academic, heart attack.
* Aolar Mosely, 87, American artist.
* Borhan Abu Samah, 34, Singaporean football player, liver cancer.

### 30

* Nise da Silveira, 94, Brazilian psychiatrist and student of Carl Jung, pneumonia.
* Grace McDonald, 81, American actress, pneumonia.
* Uxío Novoneyra, 69, Spanish poet, journalist and children's writer.
* Max Patkin, 79, American baseball player and clown.
* Gábor Pogány, 84, Hungarian-born Italian cinematographer.
* Savumiamoorthy Thondaman, 86, Sri Lankan politician.
* Maigonis Valdmanis, 66, Latvian basketball player.
* Paul Wheatley, 78, British-American historical geographer.
* Ratko Čolić, 81, Serbian football player.

### 31

* Gameel Al-Batouti, 59, Egyptian aviator, relief first officer on EgyptAir Flight 990
* Denise Bellon, 97, French photographer.
* August Chełkowski, 72, Polish physicist and politician.
* John Wainwright Evans, 90, American astronomer, murder–suicide.
* Howard Ferguson, 91, Irish composer and musicologist.
* Martin Hellberg, 94, German actor, director and writer.
* Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, 78, British rabbi.
* Greg Moore, 24, Canadian racecar driver, racing accident.
* Wyatt Ruther, 76, American jazz double-bassist.